to expand even more on the last part krout actually used to be really offensive if you look at wwi to wwii propaganda and news papers from britian this becomes very clear i think it reached its height during interwar this was also a time where britain really hated germany and even just german was usually meant as an insult same goes in denmark where tysken used to be quite offensive aswell as the term potato german but in all cases the situation changed and since all these countries are great friends now denmark is sometimes even called the th german state and most danes are somewhat fine with that so now all of those terms are just light teasing in the case of tranny though its still quite often used as an insult